Another crash report coming your way though. Same issue except I got a hold of the unibomber's manifesto and converted that to ePub

There's no need to include a new epub. The stack trace for the crash is the same as for the previous crash report. I would like to know which version of calibre you are using. Post it as a comment on the issue.

This program is really, really nice. Despite the bugs that have mostly been reported, I found no crashes or anything. I think it's great that there is another product being developed for epubs.There were however some further features that would add much functionality.
Spell check - every author needs this, if they are using only sigil to make their books.
Tables - now I think this is important. I often have tables in my documents, and it would be good to keep having them.

So those are the two big things I think could be added. i really appreciate your software!

Hope it's okay that I'll wait for the first rather stable beta version before giving it a try. But then, I will.

I urge you to give the alpha a try. It's alpha because it's not got all the intended features, not because it's unstable. I've been working it quite hard over the past day, and it hasn't crashed on me yet. A lot more stable than any beta software I've used.

Running on Xubuntu 9.0.4 with Qt 4.5 (allegedly but not explicitly installed) and with no Calibre I get the followiing error:

Code:

error while loading shared libraries: libQtWebKit.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On my other Xubuntu 9.04 mchine - with calibre 0.6x installed - I do not get this error. I assume there is a library downloded somewhere that is not in the default Xubuntu setup. I'm sure i can figure out what the difference is but I figure this might be of interest to others

I just tested Sigil and it looks indeed very good. Since in an early development stage, I think I'm not going to go into a very detailed crash test yet but I already have some comments (which I may post as bugs/enhancements later):

My earlier question about it being "too smart" was motivated by my preferred workflow. I like to edit the XHTML+CSS in a text editor (vim) and then I'd probably appreciate a tool to generate metadata and TOC, so I'd wish Sigil not to alter the code if not necessary.

I opened an ePUB with Sigil and it looks like it makes it a single long text flow. Adding a view for separate files would be fine.

A CSS editor would be welcome too. And validators.

It looks like the TOC editor is dependent on HTML tags, that's fine for a start, but it should allow more flexibility, like adding arbitrary TOC entries and directly editing the TOC tree (the depth of each entry).

Is there a way to add linear="no" to spine items?

In the metadata editor, it should be possible to specify whether Author, Illustrator, etc. are "creator" or "contributor", and the file-as property. I see it includes date of creation, date of modification, etc. probably other user-configurable events would be useful too (and set date of modification automatically upon saving the file?)